740 Quotes by Stephen Hawking

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them.

One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up.

I’m a child myself, in the sense that I’m still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.